Love alone anthology project

The Love Alone Anthology Project is a multi-disciplinary performance inspired by the poetry of AIDS activist Paul Monette (1945-95). Galvanized by his powerful 1988 volume “Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog”, written as his lover died senselessly during the height of the American AIDS epidemic, danceTactics interprets and embodies these stream-of-conscious monologues into short dance/theater performances that may be performed as a whole as well as a selection of individual “chapters”. The final expression of the project–a suite of short solos, duets, and trios performed by men of multiple generations and sexual identities–are designed to be presented in multiple contexts and for multiple communities, emphasizing our common struggles as well as our common humanity. The Love Alone Anthology Project features visual art by Robert Flynt and original music by Maesa Pullman and Dalal Bruckmann.

axioms between frames in time  

The works blueprint and foundation is embedded in my correlations between choreography and film processes. Questioning and research of traits surrounding film and crafting of movement set the stage for a playground traversed by the dancers. Grids, tableaux, underlining of story, fractured narratives are all entangled to examine and synthesize my beliefs of choreography as film.

mat-ur-a-tion

“Maturation” refers to the process of reaching a state of full development. In the context of physical activity, it’s important because it affects an individual’s readiness to engage in and respond to training. Physical preparedness is the level of fitness and readiness one has to perform a specific activity or sport. It involves developing a base level of strength, endurance, and skill to safely and effectively participate in more demanding exercises or performances. In developing this work, Thompson focused on  three things surrounding 'a place of maturity': physicality, preparedness and relentlessness. In dance, physicality is crucial, as the art requires a unique combination of strength, flexibility and technical skill. A dancer must always remain physically prepared to meet the demands of both their training and their performances, both of which frequently involve repetitive and even strenuous movements.

Undeniable Traits

Undeniable Traits is a study about, and the witnessing of, moving vocabulary: the shifting relations that are impossible to deny, along with the particular characteristics, qualities, or tendencies that someone or something has. 

This trio examines characterized movement invention, vocabulary, and material that relates to or differs from each other, playing between common modalities.

the negro mother

Inspired by the poem of the same name by Langston Hughes, The Negro Mother is a short dance film created collaboratively between danceTactics company member Nicole McClam and choreographer Keith A. Thompson. 

The piece is about the angst of Black women, and in particular Black mothers, whose courage and strength has endured for generations.

9th Rib Repurposed

a new dance-theater project presented by danceTactics performance group, choreographed by Keith A. Thompson, and created in collaboration with Tamara Pullman. Inspired by interviews and community-engagement activities with residents in rural Montana, and framed within an urban contemporary dance vocabulary, 9th Rib aims to explore the links between our identity and our narratives of (rural and urban) place. The piece features original music by Maesa Pullman.

9th Rib: Home & Heritage A Community Performance

'9th Rib'. It is essentially a community art making project that seeks to explore Montana and it's sacred legacy connecting the place and it's people. Through community movement, text and music workshops, the creative team has developed the first phase of the art piece builtspecifically for the Butte community.

A Piece of Hamlets Machine

Extracted from The Hamletmachine: Mueller's single most famous work, the power-packed, incandescent core of the Euro-left, which anticipated the export-platform resistances of the Euro-state thirty years before the reality. Don't be fooled by the brevity of the play: every single word, sentence and turn of phrase is loaded with explosive connotations, references, double and triple entendres, crisscrossing like the lines on a city map or the circuits of a chip.